Win 8 Tips for Easily Using Voice Control Computers

Perhaps we're used to using voice control instead of manual operations on smartphones and tablets, but in fact we can use voice to control our systems on our desktop computers. This issue of Win8 Encyclopedia will introduce you how to use Win8's own voice control to make the job easier. Setting up Windows Speech Recognition

First of all, we need to find "Windows Speech Recognition" in Windows 8, you can choose to search through it, or you can find it in "Easy Windows" for "All Apps". Once found, we can click to enter.

Find "Windows Speech Recognition"

Here we need to make a series of settings, but it doesn't look too much trouble, just keep on "next". Note here that you choose the right option based on the type of microphone you actually use.

Welcome Screen

After selecting the microphone type

, we will see a text prompting you to use the microphone to say this, this is the test. Whether your microphone is working properly, if there is no problem, we can go to the next step. Otherwise the "next" button is grayed out.

Adjusting the test microphone

Then there is a process that requires a "next step". The middle options can be selected according to your preferences. Here we recommend enabling "Document Review". As for the use of voice activation or manual activation, it is entirely based on personal interest.

It is recommended to enable document review

Select active mode

Finally, you can choose whether to automatically run speech recognition when the computer starts up, the entire Windows speech recognition The setup is complete and the following is free to use.

Using Windows Speech Recognition

After turning this feature on, we can use it instead of manually completing the operation. What we will face is how to use this A good helper. In fact, as we set it up, we will see the tutorials and control commands provided by the system itself, but we still have to talk about some basic usage.

The system comes with a tutorial

There are three states after the voice recognition is activated, namely "on", "sleep" and "off", we can Switch between the icons on the taskbar. We can switch between "on" and "sleep" by the "Windows+Ctrl" key combination, or by saying "start listening" and "stop listening" to the microphone.

Speech recognition that has been activated

Let’s try it out. We know that there are several ways to retrieve the command prompt in Windows 8, but each requires at least 2 steps, and speech recognition is a one-word thing. First of all, we said "Start listening" to adjust the voice recognition to "on", and then directly say "open the command prompt", the command prompt window is opened directly, very convenient.

Open a command prompt by voice

In fact, there are a lot of deeper applications in Windows, we can all easily and quickly through speech recognition. Open the ground.

In addition, Windows Speech Recognition has a "Voice Dictionary" feature that allows users to freely add speech vocabulary. We can generate a new vocabulary by entering the text and then matching it by voice. This way we can be more comfortable when we write things by voice.

Any word can be recognized

Finally, what we want to say is that speech recognition is not a flashy function. In fact, we can do many things. Use it, but we generally don't think about it. Windows provides us with this feature, and we can do our work by speaking when we can't free our hands. In the end, what I want to say is that a large part of this article is “written” by voice. Is it very strong?